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Read-only server support

#2522

I use MailMate to read the mail archive on the IETF server. With an account, you get read-only access to a bunch of mail folders (all within "Shared Folders" at the top level), you can subscribe or unsubscribe on the server to any of those folders that you want, you can set flags on messages (they are your own private set of flags; other people set their own flags), but you cannot add or remove messages or folders from the server. For the most part, MailMate deals with this reasonably well, but it does have some problems:

  1. If you reply to a message (which it will attempt to do using the email address in the configuration info for this account) and then save the draft of the message, it attempts to create a Drafts folder. It creates the local folder, puts the message in the local folder, but fails when it tries to sync.

  2. If you attempt to send the above message, it attempts to send it using the SMTP server in the configuration panel for this account and then create a Sent Messages folder and move the message to there, which fails upon attempt to sync.

  3. If you try to delete a message (including any in the useless Drafts or Sent Messages folders), it attempts to create a Deleted Messages folder. Again, attempts to sync fail.

Ideally, MailMate would discover the nature of the server being read-only and then ask you which other account you would like to use for replies, and prevent you from deleting messages (or only mark them for delete but don't attempt to move or expunge them). I don't want the server treated as completely read-only, because I do have writeable flags.

You can play with this on the IETF server. Instructions for access are here:

https://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/tools/trac/wiki/Imap

And if you want to create an account for yourself so you can have writeable flags, you can do so here:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/accounts/create/

Reported by Pete · April 15th, 2020 @ 07:52 PM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

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  1. Pete
    Pete
    • No changes were found…

    April 15th, 2020 @ 07:53 PM

  2. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to accepted

    I haven't tested this:

    1. Try removing the email address from the Email Address(es) field of the settings. This is what implicitly tells MailMate that emails can be sent from this account.
    2. Given 1. then this shouldn't happen.
    3. That one is trickier. I'll update the ticket if I find a solution for that.

    August 20th, 2020 @ 01:42 PM

  3. Pete
    Pete
    • State changed from accepted to new

    Update to this ticket: If you remove the email address from the Email Address(es) field, it attempts to send using whatever account is first in its list, which is definitely the wrong one in my case. Is there a way to assign an account to send from when there is no email address?

    February 2nd, 2022 @ 08:52 PM

  4. benny
    benny

    There's only the global “Default Account” setting in the Composer preferences pane, but this is still overridden if MailMate recognizes the recipient of the email as someone you have written to in another account.

    February 23rd, 2022 @ 03:49 PM

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